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Meet the athletes -- with ties to Chicago -- who will compete in the Winter Olympics beginning Feb. 8 in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Results will be updated as they compete in bobsled, figure skating, hockey, ski jumping and speedskating.

A woman described as a "serial stowaway" remains behind bars after a Wednesday hearing before a Cook County judge. Marilyn Hartman, 66, is facing felony theft charges for allegedly sneaking on to a British Airways flight from O'Hare International Airport to London in late January.

Nick was a high school junior already well-acquainted with mind-altering substances when a friend introduced him to Xanax. He was immediately smitten. The prescription anti-anxiety medication affected him differently than booze or weed, he recalled, smothering his inner turmoil so completely he...

Part 2: BILLIONS LOST, MILLIONS WASTED: Why Chicago area residents pay millions for water that never reaches their taps More than 25 billion gallons of water drawn from Lake Michigan was lost in the Chicago area last year, an analysis by the Chicago Tribune has found. A network of crumbling underground...

The athletes on Chicago's major sports teams are some of the biggest names in town. They also command some really big paychecks. Using data from www.spotrac, a site that tracks sports contracts, the Chicago Tribune collected the players signed with the Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks, Cubs and White Sox...

"Fly the W" has become an iconic rallying cry on social media and at the ballpark, front porches, downtown buildings and all manner of other places as the Cubs made their historic World Series run in 2016. Whether you take the meaning of the flag to be "win" or the success of the team in a more...

Check out Page 11 of the April 12, 1917, edition of the Chicago Tribune and you see an image of two items that don't seem to belong together: a goat and the Cubs homefield scoreboard. This image was taken at Weeghman Park (now Wrigley, of course) on the Cubs Opening Day almost 30 years before a...

Nine consecutive days of snow, Feb. 3 to 11, dumped a whopping 18.3-inches at O'Hare and left the area digging out. The tally doubles the February average of 9.1 inches and catapults 2017-18 season total from a pretty good amount below normal snowfall levels to just above. Weather stations in Joliet...

The vast majority of Chicago bike tickets still go to cyclists in black neighborhoods, despite past criticism by community and cycling advocates that enforcement is uneven across the city. In 2017, about 56 percent of all bike tickets were issued in majority black neighborhoods, compared with 24...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's reputation as the genial uncle of Illinois politics hasn't exactly hurt him in his latest war of words with President Donald Trump. Still, you can't spend 35 years in elected office without getting in a few scrapes. These are some of Durbin's more memorable controversies.

As McDonald’s prepares to move to its new headquarters in Chicago’s Fulton Market district this spring, the fast-food chain is also cutting ties with its longtime home in Oak Brook. McDonald’s 74-acre campus — home to the company’s global headquarters, its Hamburger University and a Hyatt hotel...

With more than 40 college football bowl games there are ample opportunities for unique sponsorships. It's difficult to keep straight. To add to the confusion the Tribune has assembled a collection of real and fake bowl games. Take our quiz to test your holiday college gridiron mastery.

Patrick Kane's name is nowhere to be found on Sylvain Turgeon's trading card from the 1994-95 Pinnacle hockey set. But when his 6-year-old face was spotted on it a couple of years later, the card became priceless to the Blackhawks All-Star forward and his family.

Comparing John Fox to the field of NFL coaches illustrates why the Bears parted ways with Fox New Years Day. Bill Belichick (Patriots), Mike McCarthy (Packers) and Mike Tomlin (Steelers) fly above the rest of the field. Fox is stuck at the bottom with only 14 wins.